Sociedade Low Power é um impressionante livro escrito pelo arquiteto e filósofo brasileiro Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. Ele representa mais de oito anos de pesquisas sobre a metamorfose planetária em diversos países. As mudanças econômicas, as estratégias geopolíticas, a profunda transformação dos valores humanos, a educação, ética, cultura, os crescentes conflitos entre o Estado e a Nação, as novas tecnologias de hipercomunicação, o fim da privacidade, o fim da classe média, a emergência de uma sociedade estruturada no entretenimento contínuo e no hiperconsumo - Pimenta analisa todos esses fatos e muito mais, mostrando como eles constituem uma nova abordagem estética, um novo salto civilizacional. O livro tem uma introdução escrita pelo jornalista ítalo-suíço Corrado Bianchi Porro, um dos mais importantes especialistas suíços em economia, e um prefácio escrito pelo legendário jornalista americano Jon Rappoport.
About the Author: Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta has been considered an important musician, architect, writer, photographer and intermedia artist in the beginning of the third millennium - according to statements written by personalities like John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, René Berger, Daniel Charles, Dove Bradshaw, Phill Niblock or William Anastasi among others. With several international prizes, more than thirty published books, many electronic books and twenty audio compact discs, his works are included in some of the most important art collections and world-wide recognized institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennale of Venice, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus of Zurich, the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Bibliotèque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others. His works are also included in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica) since 1991, in the Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles Hall's Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds. Legendary musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Maurizio Barbetti, Audrey Riley and the Manhattan Quartet among others have performed his compositions. He collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham, from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He remained composer for Merce Cunningham along more than twenty years, until Merce Cunningham's death in 2009. He is also founder and director of the Arts, Sciences and Technology Foundation - Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal (www.asa-art.com/facto.html). He is co-founder and director of the HOLOTOPIA Academy, in the Amalfi Coast, Italy (www.asa-art.com/holotopiaacademy.html). Emanuel Pimenta lives in Locarno, Switzerland - but he is also based in New York and Lisbon. His site is www.emanuelpimenta.net